It's soapbox time again.
In my opinion one of the silliest threats to come out of the healthcare reform activity of the past few months was the recent warning by Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, that Democrats would pay a price at the polls in November. According to the New York Times Mr. McConnell said, “If the Democrats jam an expansive bill through Congress, it will be the issue in every single election in America this fall.”
Does anyone, anyone truly believe that this whole healthcare reform issue WON'T be an issue in every single election this fall? Does anyone believe that if the Democrats drop their whole effort, the Republicans will say, "Okay, we won't field any candidates this fall and we won't try our hardest to unseat every Democrat we can and we won't use the very THOUGHT of Democrats passing a partisan bill to influence the electorate.” Poppycock! It doesn't matter what the Democrats do at this point and it didn't matter what they did for the past year. The Republican goal is to regain control of congress. Period.
What will be interesting to see is if any Democrats see through this empty threat.
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